| Author | Message | ||
     Rick_a |
Found this Polyphemus moth today and the cicada killer wasp last week:     | ||
| Thumper74 |
Rick, I've had those giant wasps in my attached garage for a week or so. I kill one. I found another one. The smallest one has been over an inch long, the biggest was well over 1.5 inches long. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Holy crap, where do you live? The Land of the Lost?  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Sleestacks = good eatin'! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I thought that scene was from "Voyage to the centre of the valley of the land that time (& Doug McClure) forgot." | ||
| Mnrider |
 I thought my Writing Spider was cool you have some big bugs down there. (Message edited by mnrider on September 10, 2013) | ||
| Midknyte |
Got one of these hanging out in the flower pots tonight. Neater than sh1t to watch... http://www.birds-n-garden.com/white-lined_sphinx_h ummingbird_moths.html | ||
| Rick_a |
That reminds me...we have some monster grasshoppers, too. They're so common I haven't taken any pictures. I have photos and a vid of a big roachy lookin' thing, too. | ||
| Hootowl |
FYI - Don't try to find those 1960-1970 TV shows we all loved as children and watch them again. You will be horribly disappointed. Let them live in glory in your memories. The one exception being the Dick Van Dyke Show. Still great. | ||
| 86129squids |
Carol Burnette, Twilight zone, Wild Kingdom, Laugh-in, The Gong Show, et cetera... Compared to today's cable crap that I'm almost FORCED to pay for, the network content from back then was superb! | ||
| Mnrider |
That moth has a fly trap on it's head.A bug lands there and snap-lunch. | ||
| 86129squids |
Nope- that's it's olfactory organ, and moths can smell VERY small amounts of pheromones from MILES away. That thing is what it uses to get some nooky and perpetuate the species. | ||
| Rick_a |
Some more pics from my old crappy flip phone: For reference those are extra large hands:       | ||
| Preybird1 |
I have hit a giant bumblebee at 80 mph and it hit my throat just under the chin strap and welted up so fast it wasn't even funny. | ||
| Fuzzz |
For your consideration, The Mormon cricket, about the size of a large grasshopper travels in groups of 10 million or so, and they migrate across Idaho to Utah around the beginning of August. Then there's the midge, tiny little bastids, but the colonies are so thick they look like semi solid columns about 10 feet across and twenty feet high, and there's always hundreds or even thousands of columns along Upper Klamath Lake in Southern Oregon every summer... | ||
| Rick_a |
Forgot this big fella. They make a bit of a mess when hit by the lawn mower:  | ||
| Hughlysses |
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